Reminder: Microsoft is a company. The purpose of a company is maximising profit. It is legal ! No one is forced to install 10, the rest is marketing.
In the Github link given that is what they effectively do: How it works Basically, inside a system file called wuaueng.dll there are two functions responsible for the CPU check: IsDeviceServiceable(void) and IsCPUSupported(void). IsDeviceServiceable simply calls IsCPUSupported once, and then re-uses the result that it receives on subsequent calls. My patch takes advantage of this behavior by patching a couple of boolean values and basically making Windows Update think that it has already checked your processor, and the result was that it is indeed supported.
Yes, and as a bonus you avoid the unwanted updates. Even if you're using some older platform which still receives updates normally, you're much better off using simplix instead of WU.
Now with the WPA vulnerability issue present, this is getting interesting. What happens to people who are artificially locked out of security updates?
Sigh... Once again: https://forums.mydigitallife.net/th...egrate-hotfixes-into-win7-distribution.45005/
You don't get it, do you? This is about the legal part, not the technical. Everyone knows about the workaround, however, if a company has financial loss due to this, and sues Microsoft, court won't say "Hey, why didn't you use Simplix? Microsoft is innocent!". So?
No, I don't get it. Especially when some random person on a forum asks a general question. I believe companies rely on people, hired specifically to maintain the systems and keep them up-to-date, a.k.a. system admins. Said people are probably smart enough to: 1 - be aware of the WU situation with win7 on kaby lake 2 - do the necessary research and come up with a solution before any damage is sustained(which frankly is the job they're paid to do) I've prepared updated windows 7 images for mainstream consumers and a couple of schools in the recent past. I've also explained how they could receive updates(if and when they need any) in this specific scenario. I've yet to hear someone complaining about it. So? What's going to change by answering your question?